Dan Fogler biography

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Dan Fogler's life changed drastically after winning a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway show The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee.

Two years earlier, he'd been doing small time theater and low budget films when a longtime friend, Rebecca Feldman, called him up and asked him to participate in creating a show with her improv group. He was asked to create a character for a show about a spelling bee. Fogler came up with William Barfee, a slobby preteen with a "rare mucous-membrane disorder." They called the show C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, and workshopped and developed it at the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts in 2004, before it opened on Broadway in April 2005 under the new name The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Since then, he's played roles in Good Luck Chuck (2007) with Jessica Alba and Dane Cook, and Kids in America (2008) opposite Anna Faris. He also provided the voice of Yummo for the animated film Horton Hears a Who (2008), followed by a role in Number 13 (2008), where he played famed film director Alfred Hitchcock opposite Ben Kingley and Ewan McGregor.